[tulip-bug] Bizarre tulip receive problem

[Paul Jones]

Hi
Thanks for being so helpful!

I have done as you suggested.
I have downloaded and installed the lastest tulip drivers.  It now reports
tulip.c:v0.95b 8/2/2002.
I also recompiled by kernel without tulip support to ensure it was using the 
correct drivers.

These solutions didn't fix my problem =(

I have two other bits of information that may be helpful:
- When I look at my hub the link light cycles on and off once every three 
seconds.
- the following is output from /var/log/messages:
Oct 28 18:46:13 localhost kernel: eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good.
Oct 28 18:46:46 localhost last message repeated 11 times
Oct 28 18:47:49 localhost last message repeated 21 times
Oct 28 18:48:52 localhost last message repeated 21 times
Oct 28 18:49:56 localhost last message repeated 21 times
Oct 28 18:50:58 localhost last message repeated 21 times
Oct 28 18:52:01 localhost last message repeated 21 times

The frequency seems to be about once every three seconds!!!

Let me know if there is any other information that is helpful



>On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Paul Jones wrote:
> > >On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Paul Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > >   My D-Link System Inc DFE-500TX Fast Ethernet card is having 
>problems
> > > > receive packets on a regular and timely basis.  For example here is 
>the
> > > > output of a ping command to a computer on my network
>..
> > >What driver version are you using?
> > tulip 0.9.15-pre11
> >
> > >What is the detection message?
> > Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: tulip0:  EEPROM default media type
> > Autosense.
> > Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: tulip0:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0)
> > described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
> > Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: tulip0:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FDX 
>(#4)
> > described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
> > Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at
> > 0xd800, 00:40:05:A0:0D:0C, IRQ 10.
>..
> > > >   I am running Redhat 7.3 with the 2.4.19 kernel.
> > >
> > >That's very likely your problem...
> > How is that a problem?  I downloaded and upgraded the kernel from 
>source.  I
> > compiled the driver into the kernel.
>
>The modified driver distributed with the kernel is broken, and has been
>broken for a long time.  You'll need to use the driver from scyld.com as
>a module:
>
>mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
>cd /tmp/netdrivers/
>ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
>tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
>make
>make install
>

Thanks again
Paul


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